Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
, and
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
*** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...
masculine given name of
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
origin, derived from the Roman name Marcus.
Marc may refer to:
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Marc Alaimo
Marc Alaimo (born Michael Joseph Alaimo; May 5, 1942) is an American actor, known for his villainous roles. He is best known for his role as recurring villain Gul Dukat in the TV series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''.
Career
Alaimo is a classica ...
(born 1942), American actor
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Marc Albrighton
Marc Kevin Albrighton (born 18 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or wing-back for Championship side West Bromwich Albion, on loan from Premier League club Leicester City.
Albrighton joined Aston Vil ...
(born 1989), English footballer
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Marc Alexandre
Marc Alexandre (born 30 October 1959) is a retired judoka from France, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics (1984 and 1988). He was born in Paris.
Alexandre won the bronze medal in the men's half-lightweigh ...
, French judoka
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Marc Almond
Peter Mark Sinclair "Marc" Almond, (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/ new wave duo Soft Cell where he became known for his distinctive soulful voice and androgynous image. ...
, English artist and one half of
Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. The duo consists of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The band are primarily known for their 1981 hit version of "Tainted Love" and their pla ...
Opsware
Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California, that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices in New York City, Redm ...
*
Marc Andreu
Marc Andreu (born 27 December 1985 in Fréjus, Var (department), Var) is a French rugby union player. Andreu, who is a Rugby union positions#14. & 11. Wing, wing, plays his club rugby for Stade Rochelais, La Rochelle having previously been at Raci ...
, French rugby union player
* Marc D. Angel, rabbi and author
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Marc Andreyko
Marc Andreyko (born 20 June 1970) is a comic book writer and screenwriter, best known for the true crime series ''Torso'' he co-wrote with Brian Michael Bendis and for co-creating the character Kate Spencer for DC Comics.
Career
Marc Andreyko ...
(born 1970), American comic book writer and screenwriter
*
Marc Angelucci
Marc Etienne Angelucci (March 30, 1968 – July 11, 2020) was an American lawyer, attorney, men's rights activist, and the vice-president of the National Coalition for Men (NCFM). As a lawyer, he represented several cases related to Men's right ...
, American lawyer and men's rights activist
* Marc Anthony, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter
*
Marc Asch
Marc Asch III (born June 27, 1946) was an American politician and health care consultant.
Asch lived in North Oaks, Minnesota with his wife and kids. He moved to Minnesota in 1987. Asch received his bachelor's degree in government from Oberlin Co ...
(born 1946), American politician
*
Marc Bartra
Marc Bartra Aregall (, ; born 15 January 1991) is a Spanish professional association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor and the Catalonia national football team, Catalonia national team.
He started h ...
, Spanish footballer
* Marc Batchelor (1970–2019), South African footballer
*
Marc Bator
Marc Bator (born December 4, 1972) is a German television moderator.
Life
Bator was born in Hannover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) in ...
(born 1972), German television moderator
* Marc Bell, drummer for
The Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite achieving a limited commercial appeal in the United S ...
Marc Bélanger (musician)
Marc Bélanger (born 30 July 1940) is a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, arranger, composer, and music educator.
Life and career
Born in Quebec City, Bélanger is the son of violinist and conductor Edwin Bélanger and the brother of ...
(born 1940), Canadian violinist
*
Marc Bergevin
Marc Bergevin (born August 11, 1965) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is currently senior advisor to the general manager of the Los Angeles Kings. Bergevin played as a defenceman in the NHL.
Playing career
As ...
(born 1965), Canadian former ice hockey player and former general manager of the
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling is always used instead of ''Canadians''. The French spelling of ''Montréal'' is also sometimes used in the English media. (french: link=no, Les Canadiens de Montréal), officially ...
*
Marc Bellemare
Marc Bellemare (born 3 May 1956) is a lawyer and politician from Canada.
Background
He was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, studied Law at the Université de Montréal and was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1979.
Provincial politics
Bellema ...
(born 1956), Canadian lawyer and politician
*
Marc-André Blanchard
Marc-André Blanchard (born November 10, 1965) is a Canadian executive, lawyer and former diplomat. He served as Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, from April 1, 2016 until July 31, 2020.Marc Blitzstein, American composer
*
Marc Bloch
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France ov ...
(1886–1944), French historian
*
Marc Blondin
Marc Blondin is a French Canadian professional wrestling commentator, ring announcer and promoter.
He started his wrestling career in 1986 for the World Wrestling Federation and worked there until 1991. Blondin was also the main French language a ...
, French Canadian professional wrestling commentator
* Marc Blucas, American actor
*
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan ( ; born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan was posthumously inducted in ...
(1947–1977), singer and songwriter for T. Rex
* Marc de Bonte, Belgian kickboxer
*
Marc Breslow
Marc Breslow (July 7, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American television director, specializing in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions. Breslow was the director throughout the CBS and syndicated run of ''Match Game'' during the 1970s and ea ...
Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (, ; 25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-British engineer who is most famous for the work he did in Britain. He constructed the Thames Tunnel and was the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Born in Franc ...
, French engineer, father of
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history," "one of the 19th-century engineering giants," and "on ...
*
Marc Bulger
Marc Robert Bulger (; born April 5, 1977) is a retired American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth r ...
, American football player
*
Marc-Antoine Camirand
Marc-Antoine Camirand (born 30 April 1979) is a Canadian racing driver. He currently competes in the NASCAR Pinty's Series and is the 2022 NASCAR Pinty's Series champion.
Early career
Camirand began karting in the early 1990s, winning the F100 ...
(born 1979), Canadian racing driver
*
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based contemporary artist whose works are in the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Victoria and Albert Museum collections. His cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, ...
, French-British painter
*
Marc Canter
Marc Canter is an American internet entrepreneur, speaker, technology evangelist and early pioneer of online software,LEFLER, LUKE (2015)The New Stack Makers: Marc Canter and the Days Before Macromedia — Part One". ''The New Stack''. Retrieved ...
, well-known figure in the sphere of open standards, social networks and blogging
*
Marc Carroll
Marc Carroll (born 25 January 1972) is an Irish musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has released 7 albums and 23 singles. He is currently signed to One Little Indian Records, who released his most recent studio album, ''Love Is Al ...
(born 1972), Irish musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
*
Marc Cécillon
Marc Cécillon (born 30 July 1959 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a former French rugby union player and convicted murderer, who captained the national side on five occasions. He represented France from 1988 to 1995, with 46 test caps, includin ...
, French rugby union player and convicted murderer
*
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...
, Belarusian painter
*
Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry (born March 23, 1962) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known for creating the ABC dramedy series ''Desperate Housewives''.
Personal life Early life
Marc Cherry was born in Long Beach and lived briefly in ...
(born 1962), American television writer and producer
*
Marc Cohn
Marc Craig Cohn (; born July 5, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1992. Cohn is best known for the song "Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album, which was a Top 40 h ...
, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter
* Marc Collins-Rector (born 1959), American businessman
* Marc Copani (born 1981), American professional wrestler and school principal
*
Marc Copland Marc or MARC may refer to:
People
* Marc (given name), people with the first name
* Marc (surname), people with the family name
Acronyms
* MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging,
* MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...
, American jazz pianist
* Marc H. Dalton (born 1965), retired United States Navy rear admiral
*
Marc Dalton
Marc Dalton is a Canadian politician. He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge after the 2019 Canadian federal election. He was a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia fo ...
, Canadian politician
* Marc Davis, multiple people
*
Marc Donato
Marc Giuseppe Donato (born January 25, 1989) is a Canadian actor.
Career
One of the earliest films in which Donato appears is as eight-year-old Mike Hillary in the low budget television film, ''Specimen''.
Later roles include Derek Haig on '' ...
(born 1989), Canadian actor
*
Marc Dreier
Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950) is an American former lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2009 for committing investment fraud using a Ponzi scheme. He is scheduled to be released from FCI Sandstone on October 26, 2 ...
(born 1950), former American lawyer
*
Marc Dupré
Marc Dupré (born July 28, 1973) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician from Quebec.
Career
His first album release was ''Refaire le monde'' in 2005. It included " Tout près du bonheur" with Céline Dion. The song was written by Dion and ...
(born 1973), Canadian singer, songwriter and musician
*
Marc Dutroux
Marc Paul Alain Dutroux (; born 6 November 1956) is a Belgian convicted serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester. Initially convicted for the abduction and rape of five young girls in 1989, Dutroux was released on parole after just thr ...
(born 1956), Belgian serial killer
*
Marc Ecko
Marc Louis Ecko (né Milecofsky; August 29, 1972) is an American fashion designer, entrepreneur, and artist. He is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of fashion company Ecko Unlimited. He also founded ''Complex'' magazine in 2002.
Early ...
All Black
The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, ...
rugby player
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Marc Emery
Marc Scott Emery (born February 13, 1958) is a Canadian cannabis rights activist, entrepreneur and politician. Often described as the "Prince of Pot", Emery has been a notable advocate of international cannabis policy reform, and has been active ...
, Canadian politician and marijuana advocate
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Marc Enfroy
Marc Maurice Enfroy (born 1965) is an American composer, songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a compo ...
(born 1965), American composer, songwriter and producer
*
Marc Fisher
Marc Fisher (born December 15, 1958) is a senior editor for ''The Washington Post'', where he writes about national, foreign and local issues. He was previously a ''Post'' enterprise editor, leading a team of writers experimenting with new types ...
(born 1958), American senior editor for The Washington Post
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Marc-Vivien Foé
Marc-Vivien Foé (1 May 1975 – 26 June 2003) was a Cameroonian professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder for both club and country.
Having initially played for Canon Yaoundé, Foé went on to play professionally in Ligue 1 ...
, Cameroonian footballer
*
Marc Ford Marc or MARC may refer to:
People
* Marc (given name), people with the first name
* Marc (surname), people with the family name
Acronyms
* MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging,
* MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system o ...
(born 1966), American blues-rock guitarist
*
Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 30 November 1969) is a Swiss filmmaker. He is best known for directing the feature films '' Monster's Ball'', '' Finding Neverland'', '' Stranger than Fiction'', ''The Kite Runner'', ''Quantum of Solace'', ''World War Z'', and ...
, German-Swiss filmmaker and screenwriter
*
Marc Gagnon
Marc Gagnon (born May 24, 1975) is a Canadian former short track speed skater. He is a four-time Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three Olympic gold medals.
Biography
Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Gagnon started ...
, Canadian athlete and Olympian
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Marc Garneau
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian politician, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Par ...
, Canadian astronaut
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Marc Gasol
Marc Gasol Sáez (, ; born January 29, 1985) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB. The center is a two-time All-NBA Team member and a three-time NBA All-Star. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of ...
, Catalan basketball player
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Marc-Amable Girard
Marc-Amable Girard (April 25, 1822 – September 12, 1892) was the second premier of Manitoba, and the first Franco-Manitoban to hold that post. The ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide'' lists Girard as having been Premier (or ''Chief Minister'' ...
(1822–1892), second premier of Manitoba
*Marc Godart, ''
Time Crisis 5
''Time Crisis'' is a first-person on-rails light gun shooter series of arcade video games by Namco, introduced in 1995. It is focused on the exploits of a fictional international intelligence agency who assigns its best agents to deal with a m ...
'' character
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Marc Gonsalves
Marc David Gonsalves (born 1972) is an American Northrop Grumman employee who was abducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and was held hostage from February 13, 2003, to July 2, 2008. He was rescued in Operation Jaque, along ...
(born 1972), American Northrop Grumman member
*
Marc Guéhi
Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel Guéhi (; born 13 July 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for club Crystal Palace and the England national team.
Guéhi came through the youth system at Chelsea before spending ...
(born 2000), English footballer
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Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ (born September 5, 1961), is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer. Hamelin is recognized worldwide for the originality and technical proficiency of his performances of the classic repertoire. He has received 11 Gr ...
, French-Canadian pianist
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Marc Hamilton
Marc Hamilton (2 February 1944 – 17 February 2022) was a Canadian singer best known for his 1970 single "Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer".
Beginnings
In 1963, at the age of 19, and the height of The Beatles' success of the sixties, and the ...
(1944–2022), Canadian singer
*
Marc Hannaford
Marc Hannaford is an Australian jazz pianist. He was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2011 and at the AIR Awards of 2011 for ''Shreveport Stomp'' in 2011.
He was part of The Antripodean Collective wit ...
, Australian jazz pianist
*
Marc Hempel
Marc Hempel (born May 25, 1957) is an American cartoonist/comics artist best known for his work on '' The Sandman'' with Neil Gaiman.
Biography
Writer and artist Marc Hempel grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and now lives in Baltimore. ...
, American cartoonist known for his work on ''
The Sandman
The Sandman is a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.
Representation in traditional folklore
The Sandman is a traditional charact ...
'' with
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...
* Marc Hoffmann (born 1973), German sex offender and murderer
*
Marc Hodler
Marc Hodler ( – ) was a Switzerland, Swiss lawyer, President of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1963 until his death, and contract bridge, bridge player. Hodler is best kno ...
, International Olympic Committee member
*
Marc Hogan
Marc Hogan (born October 3, 1981) is an American journalist. He currently works as a senior staff writer at Pitchfork.
Hogan has been a music critic at Pitchfork since 2004. He has contributed to a number of other publications, including '' SPIN ...
(born 1981), American journalist
* Marc de Hond (1977–2020), Dutch television presenter, businessman, author, and theatre performer
*
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for his own fashion label, Marc Jacobs, and formerly Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, which was produced for approximately 15 years, before it was d ...
, American fashion designer
* Marc Jampole (born 1950), American poet, public relations executive, former television news reporter and political blogger
*
Marc Janko
Marc Janko (born 25 June 1983) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Janko was a successful goal-scorer, particularly during his time at Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg, where he scored 75 league goa ...
, Austrian footballer
*
Marc Kielburger
Marc Kielburger (born 1977) is a Canadian author, social entrepreneur, columnist, humanitarian and activist for children's rights. He is the co-founder, along with his brother Craig, of the We Movement, which consists of the WE Charity, an ...
, Canadian social entrepreneur, Co-founder of
WE Charity
WE Charity (french: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: ''Enfants Entraide''), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. ...
Marc Kudisch
Marc Kudisch (born September 22, 1966) is an American stage actor, who is best known for his musical theatre roles on Broadway.
Early life and education
Kudisch was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of Florence and Raymond Kudisch. His fami ...
, American stage actor
* Marc Labrèche (born 1960), Canadian actor, comedian and host
*
Marc Lacroix (biochemist)
Marc Guy Albert Marie Lacroix (; born 28 April 1963 in Verviers, Wallonia, Belgium) is a biochemist (educated at University of Liège) and a researcher who specializes in breast cancer biology, metastasis and therapy.
He works at Institut Jules B ...
Marc Lasry
Marc Lasry (born September 23, 1959) is a Moroccan-American billionaire businessman and hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Avenue Capital Group, and the co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks basketbal ...
, American billionaire hedge fund manager
*
Marc Lawrence
Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith; February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.
Early life
Lawrence w ...
, American actor
*
Marc Lépine
Marc Lépine (; born October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian antifeminist mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec, who, in 1989, murdered fourteen women, and wounded ten women and four menNote: Many sources state thirteen were wounded ...
(1964–1989), Canadian mass murderer and perpetrator of the 1989
École Polytechnique massacre
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
*
Marc Maron
Marcus David Maron (born September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, and musician.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Maron was a frequent guest on the '' Late Show with David Letterman'' and has appeared more than forty ...
, American stand-up comedian
*
Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez Alentà (born 17 February 1993) is a Spanish professional Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle road racing, road racer, who has raced for Honda Racing Corporation, Honda's Repsol Honda, factory team since his MotoGP ...
, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* Marc May, American football player
*
Marc Meneau
Marc Meneau (16 March 1943 – 9 December 2020) was a French chef, who earned three stars from the Guide Michelin. He was the chef of the restaurant ''L'Espérance'' located in Saint-Père, Yonne.
Early life
Meneau was born in Avallon on 16 Mar ...
(1943–2020), French chef
*
Marc Mero
Marc Mero (born July 9, 1960) is an American former Amateur boxing, amateur boxer and professional wrestling, professional wrestler, as well as a motivational speaker. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF ...
(born 1960), American professional wrestler
*
Marc Methot
Marc Philippe Methot (born June 21, 1985) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During his career, he played for the National Hockey League's Columbus Blue Jackets, Ottawa Senators, and Dallas Stars.
Playing career
Am ...
(born 1985), Canadian professional ice hockey player
* Marc Miller (born 1947), American game designer
* Marc Morley, American
lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...
player
*
Marc Moro
Marc Moro (born July 17, 1977) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who was the first captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate team, the Toronto Marlies. He was drafted in the second round, 27th over ...
, (born 1977), Canadian former professional hockey player
*
Marc Mozart
Mozart & Friends is a record production and songwriting team working in the genres of pop, R&B and hip hop. The team was founded in 2006 and consists of producers and songwriters located in different countries:
* German mix-engineer, songwriter ...
, German songwriter, record producer and music manager
*
Marc Munford
Marc Christopher Munford (born February 14, 1965) is a former American football linebacker who played four seasons with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Broncos in the fourth round of the 1987 NFL Dr ...
(born 1965), American football player
*
Marc Okrand
Marc Okrand (; born July 3, 1948) is an American linguist. His professional work is in Native American languages, and he is well known as the creator of the Klingon language in the ''Star Trek'' science fiction franchise.
Linguistics
As a ling ...
, creator of the
Klingon
The Klingons ( ; Klingon: ''tlhIngan'' ) are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''.
Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original ''Star Trek'' (''TOS'') series, Klingons were swarthy humanoids c ...
language
*
Marc Overmars
Marc Overmars (; born 29 March 1973) is a Dutch former professional footballer and director of football at Belgian Pro League side Royal Antwerp FC. He was previously director of football at Ajax. During his football career, he played as a wing ...
, Dutch footballer
*
Marc Panther
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of ...
, French-Japanese singer and member of the Japanese pop group
Globe
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe ...
*
Marc Platt (producer)
Marc E. Platt (born April 14, 1957) is an American producer who has worked in film, theatre, and television. He has received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards ...
(born 1957), American producer
* Marc Quessy, Canadian paralympic athlete
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Marc Quiñones
Marc Quiñones is a percussionist, a longtime player in salsa music, a former member of the Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band (1991–2014) and the Gregg Allman Band. He is of Puerto Rican ancestry.
Born in The Bronx, New York, he b ...
(born 1963), American percussionist
* Mark A. Ratner (born 1942), American chemist and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University
*
Marc Ratner
Marc Ratner is an American entrepreneur who is the current Vice President of Regulatory Affairs with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Formerly, he was the Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Background
Ratner was born ...
, American Vice President of Regulatory Affairs with the Ultimate Fighting Championship
*
Marc Ravalomanana
Marc Ravalomanana (; born 12 December 1949) is a Malagasy politician who was the President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009. Born into a farming Merina family in Imerinkasinina, near the capital city of Antananarivo, Ravalomanana first rose to ...
, president of Madagascar
*
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (;
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Wait ...
, composer
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Marc Rich
Marc Rich (born Marcell David Reich; December 18, 1934 – June 26, 2013) was an international commodity, commodities Trader (finance), trader, hedge fund manager, financier, businessman, and financial criminal. He founded the commodities company ...
(1934–2013), Swiss-based
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
who fled the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
in 1983 to live in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
in order to avoid prosecution
*
Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg is president and founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, an independent non-profit organization, incorporated in Washington, D.C. Rotenberg is the editor of ''The AI Policy Sourcebook'', a member of the OECD Expert Group o ...
(born 1960), American lawyer
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Marc Rucart
Marc Émile Rucart (24 July 1893 – 23 January 1964) was a French journalist and Radical politician who was a deputy from 1928 to 1942.
He alternated between the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Health from 1936 to 1940.
Although he ...
(1893–1964), French journalist and Radical politician
*
Marc Armand Ruffer
Sir Marc Armand Ruffer CMG (29 August 1859 – 15 April 1917) was a Swiss-born British experimental pathologist and bacteriologist. He is considered a pioneer of modern paleopathology.
Family
Ruffer was born in Lyon, as the fifth of nine chil ...
(1859–1917), Swiss-born British experimental pathologist and bacteriologist
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Marc Sappington
Marc Vincent Sappington (born February 9, 1978) is an American spree killer and cannibal convicted of murdering four acquaintances in March and April 2001 in Kansas City, Kansas. He gained notoriety for eating part of the leg of one of his victims ...
(born 1978), American spree killer
* Marc Eugene Schiler, professor of the USC School of Architecture at the University of Southern California
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Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (; born October 22, 1959) is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, best known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman. He wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics for the Broadw ...
(born 1959), American composer
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Marc Singer
Marc Singer (born January 29, 1948) is a Canadian-born American actor best known for his roles in the '' Beastmaster'' film series, as Mike Donovan in the original 1980s TV series '' V'', and as Matt Cantrell in ''Dallas''.
Early life
Singer wa ...
, Canadian actor, best known for his role in the film ''
The Beastmaster
''The Beastmaster'' is a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. Loosely based on the 1959 novel '' The Beast Master'' by Andre Norton, the film is about a man who ...
Marc Staal
Marc Staal (born January 13, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL) after having played over 1,000 regular season games with the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings ...
(born 1987), Canadian ice hockey player
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Marc Summers
Marc Summers (born Marc Berkowitz; November 11, 1951) is an American television personality, comedian, game show host, producer, and talk show host. He is best known for hosting '' Double Dare'' for Nickelodeon, and ''Unwrapped'' for Food Networ ...
(born 1951), American TV host
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Marc Thiercelin
Marc Thiercelin, known as "Captain Marck", is a French professional yachtsman, born on October 29, 1960 in Saâcy-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). He totals five solo rounds of the world together with 22 transatlantic races, seven editions of the Soli ...
Marc Weiner
Marc Weiner (; born May 17, 1955) is an American comedian, puppeteer, and actor. He creates and performs with "head puppets", which are live human heads atop small puppet bodies.
Biography
Weiner was born in Queens, New York (state), New York, t ...
, American comedian, puppeteer, and actor
* Marc Wilkinson (1929–2022), Australian-British composer and conductor
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Marc Wilmots
Marc Robert Wilmots (born 22 February 1969) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who recently managed the Iran national team and is now active at Raja CA. During his club career as attacking midfielder, he won trophies w ...
(born 1969), Belgian footballer
* Marc Woodard, NFL player
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Marc Yu
Marc Yu (born January 5, 1999, in Monterey Park, California) is an American musician and former musical child prodigy, who is best known for playing the piano and the cello and accordion.
Early life and career
Marc started playing the piano ...
(born 1999), American musical child prodigy
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Marc Scott Zicree
Marc Scott Zicree (born 1955) is an American science fiction author, television writer and screenwriter. Zicree has written for major studios and networks including Paramount, Universal, Disney, Sony/Columbia Tri-Star, MGM, New Line, CBS, NBC, ...
(born 1955), American science fiction author, television writer and screenwriter
Fictional characters
*Marc, a character in the 2013 coming-of-age movie '' Puppylove''
See also
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Mark (given name)
Mark is a common male given name and is related to the Latin word Mars. It means "consecrated to the god Mars (mythology), Mars", and also may mean "God of war" or "to be warlike". ''Marcus (praenomen), Marcus'' was one of the three most common Rom ...